The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1887-12-27
STATE POLITICS.

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Republican newspapers say tho third |
party will defeat the amendment. This Ia
about the alzs OF it.-Mountain Echo Dm,)
Colonel Lucas Il seems don't know |
when he Ia dead. 10 has had his innings |
and should quietly notwithstanding
Nars (Dem.)
It Is said that Dan. Lucas will soon issue
another circular. How would II DO 10
send Lucas aa minister 10 Liberia before
the circular 10 published p IFaynSNeus.
Thesuggestion oithe Wheeling IsTELLI.
dEScER to have q convention OF Republic.
can ClubH at an early date, to organize
League for West Virginia, Ia a good one.-|
Parklr,bHg Journal.
! Tho move to nominate Hon. w. L.
Wilson for Governor is perhaps intended
rather to get Wilson out OF somebody
else's way Tor Congress than any other
thing-ParkersJurg Sentinel (Dem,j
We notice that our representative Hogg
Is trying hard for Marine Hospital at
Point Pleasant. We hope he may 1t,
and then We hope he may remember the
upper end OF the District and see what he
can do for st. Marys and Peasants coun.
ty.-St. Mary's Oracle (Dem.)
Our friend, George Washington Tppett,
wasNin Washington last week and enjoyed
q private, confidential chat with the Pres.
ident. II G. W. talked with the frank.
ness that has characterized gomo Of his
classic conversatiogs with US, we feel sure
tho President was q esdder and wiser
man when no left.-Parkersburg Sentinel
Dem. f.ge., 81.
AS suggested In these columns some
time since, West Virginia may furnish
The man for second place on the Republi.
can ticket in 1883, az rumors looking to
that end aro already aaoat; and should
such be the case, the mantle could fall on
no worthier or truer shoulders than those
Of General Nathan Goa.-1foryan Mercury
(Rep.)
II is said that In the department oil In.
ternal Revenue, ct Washington, which ia
presided over by Mr.. Joseph Miller, Of this
State, there are four Republican chiefs oil
division and only two Democratic chiefs.
ThiH Is extremely comforting to the Dem.
ocratic war horses-over the left.-Shtp'
perdstown Register (Dem.)
There Is much talk as to the probable
nominee for Governor, the idea generally
being that 1t should be some strong man
who was not identified with either faction
In the Senatorial fight. The favorlte name
so far mentioned Is that Of Judge Elem.
ing, but it is thought by many that he
would not accept tho nomination. -Shep
herdsIown Register (Dtm)
In diecussing The quality of honey at q
dinner table few days since, an elderly
lady remarked that she had not seen a
very good a,ticlo Tor some time. Where
upon young lady OF Democratic antecs.
dents remarked that Clevsland's opposi.
ton to industries had boen 90 great thai
oven bees could not work under his ad.
ministration.-IIts!on Republican,.
The boom OF Gen. Nathan Golf for Vice
President has gotten far beyond our OWL
State, and it seems large and likely tc
grow. at the Republican Club Conven
ton in New York, notwithstanding the
presence OF Senator Evarts and other dis
tinguished men, Gen. COT was undoubt.
eddy the most conspicuous and the most
soughtaiter man present.-Preston County
Journal.
The greater evil OF the whisky traffic ia
the prostitution OF the voting privileges oil
large element by the influence OF the
whisky power. 1t is getting to be 80 in
many towns that no man can be elected
nnless no is satisfactory to the purchase.
bio element; and how this is done, few oil
either party need not be told, io1 under
cover or above, whisky plays powerful
part in election Observation-Disclosures
burg Herald (Rp.)
Let it BIO underatood by the sturdy yeo.
msnry Of the State that tho Baltimore &
Ohio Railroad is to run So political ma.
chine to domineer our States interests
and politics, and they will, Democrat and
Republican, resen. 1t en- nlasse. And il it
Is to be accepted ss department OF the
Democratic party, this State is too nearly
Republican for it to be a, safe step. The
Baltimore 4 Ohio tcRnnot afford to array
itself for or againat either pRrty.-Gratlon
Eagle-Stntinel.
And 80 Senator Dan B. Lucas, the great
friend Of "personal liberty" got the
bounce. Well, we ere not yindctive nor
wicked, but We should have been glad to
have been present at the state house and
photographed the color OF the atmosphere
in his excellency's private Office when
tho Senate's ultima.um was reached. III
| it was not deeply blush in color and ter.
riiically mixed with sulphur, our COVER.
nor is better Christian than has hereto.
fore been put down to his credit.-Gran.
don's Graphic (Prohibilion.)
Mr.. Lucas feels that his contest has been
hastily and inconsiderately disposed Of
by the Senate, and he 10 thoroughly con-
WINGED that there is way by which the
Senate may be brought to consider more
deliberately the question INVOLVED in his
contest against Judge Faulkner. The
scene now going on is one not laid down
In the program, and the wonder is now
wha. the coming year will bring forth.
Mr.. Lucas is looked upon very suapi-
cously by Mr.. Camden and his friends,
and the only consideration he has 70.
ceIVed has beeh wholly from the Repub.
licsns.--Point Pleasant Gazette (Rep.) So
Ho Held the Cat. s,l-
Nt,r York Sun. & rs
Mother ito Bobby)-I'm shocked to heal
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